[CS-FSLUG] Re: Christiansource Digest, Vol 12, Issue 45

[Don Parris]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:03:27 -0500, Aaron Lehmann
<lehmanap at lehmanap.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:52:20PM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > On Sun February 27 2005 4:38 pm, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:14:01PM -0500, Bradly J. McConnell wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > >Bottom line: Looks like I'm STUCK (literally and figureatively)
> > > > >with XP.   <p'tooey!>
> > > >
> > > > NEVER!!!!
> > >
> > > This may be heresy, but what does one need Linux FOR on a laptop?  It's
> >
> > Security for one, or at least most people do!
> 
> Security?  Don't open HTML mail.  Disable the insecure MS services.
> Install Zone-alarm and Norton.  I suppose that maybe that's more hassle
> than installing linux for some people.  Myself, I find installing Linux
> to be a huge chore, especially when wireless networking is going to be
> involved.  That's why I set it up in such a way that I can get full use
> from my server through a putty, and then don't worry about what OS I'm
> using on laptops and terminals.
> 
You must be using Debian, if you're going through that much hassle. ;)

> 
> >
> > > not as though you're planning on using it as a server, since you're
> > > taking it with you wherever you go.  It's not as though you're having
> > > multiple people use it at the same time (since you can't even find
> > > internet connection, currently).  A frreind of mine has a laptop which
> > > is running windows 98, and the machine is quite solid.  It's well up to
> > > the task of opening up putty, and connecting elsewhere, or doing
> > > documents.  It even plays starcraft (the only game worth playing, most
> > > times).  What I'm getting at I guess is, I don't see the purpose of
> > > hassling with Linux for a laptop.
> >
> > There's also principle. MANY of us won't use M$ nor buy it for a number of
> > moral reasons.
> 
> Not much to say to that.
> 

This was going to be my point as well.  I have to use M$ @ work
because they won't dual-boot the box for me.  I suspect that trying to
do that myself would land me in the unemployment line.  But any
machine I have control over runs a pure FOSS platform.  Fred is not
anti-proprietary as I am, just anti-M$.

Don
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